Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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